Happy Fathers Day - New Zealand

Good morning everyone,

It's another beautiful Sunday morning here in Auckland. Layla has just gone down for a nap, Talor is watching Winnie the Pooh, Shell is making breakfast and a cake for me, and I'm typing this.

As the heading shows, it is indeed Fathers Day here. It was my turn to sleep in this morning, so that was a treat in itself...but the kids also got me a home brew kit and a new travel coffee mug. So sweet. We don't have anything planned really, but if the weather stays nice we'll have a fish n' chips dinner at Mission Bay with Shell's family. It's not supposed to stay nice, however, so if that's the case we'll go to Wagamama's (a Thai, Japanese, Chinese etc mix style of restaurant).

Yesterday was also a nice day here. It started when I got up with the kids and let Shell sleep. It was her turn. Talor had a hot chocolate and watched TV and then he, Layla and I played until Shell woke up. Later, the oil got changed in our cars and I went to the Auckland rugby game. It wasn't the best game, but the weather was nice and our team won.

Three more weeks until school holidays and my mom and Jud come...we're looking forward to that.

Well, that's about it for now...a big happy birthday to Tom in Texas. I don't know how old you are today, but we hope you are having a good birthday.

After uploading some photos off the camera just now, I noticed one that I hadn't seen before. Shell took it the other day when Layla was getting into books/recipes that she wasn't supposed to. It was too cute not to include.